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Originally Posted by Ustwo
As for his intellect, I'd take Condi over him in a chess match any day. Condi 2008  |
Too bad international conflicts aren't solved with chess games. Condi might very well be better at chess, but if I were say, planning a military endevour with clear goals and an exit strategy in place, I'd choose Powell.
I've been around here long enough to remember how geeked you were to have Powell in GWB's cabinet ustwo. Can't wait for Rice to disagree with party dogma so you can play the race card on her too.
Powell is an interesting case of someone who knew better all along that the Iraq war was not justified and would end up as the morass we now find ourselved engulfed in. He was conflicted due to his military background and training to be a team player. So instead of disagreeing we all saw the flaws inherant in that type of thinking. Had Powell and Tenet shown more backbone in 2002-3 they'd certainly have been fired earlier, and we can speculate all day about he effects that might have had on the deeply misguided war effort.